Release Date: 31 December 2008
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 6
Barcode: 042284302821
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 31 December 2008
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 6
Barcode: 042284302821
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
6-CD box set. Sun Bear Concerts - documenting five complete solo performances by Keith Jarrett in Japan - counts as a milestone achievement in the history of jazz recording. As Down Beat wrote, on the occasion of the original release, Jarrett's improvisations are "the inventions of a giant, overpoweringly intimate in the way they can draw a listener in and hold him captive. Jarrett has once more stepped into the cave of his creative consciousness and brought to light music of startling power, majesty and warmth." Rich in incident and detail, the music first issued in 1978, revealed Jarrett as a player of limitless creativity, unique in his ability to find new forms in the moment, night after night. "These marathons showed Jarrett to be one of the greatest improvisers in jazz," Ian Carr wrote in his biography of the pianist, "with an apparently inexhaustible flow of rhythmic and melodic ideas, one of the most brilliant pianistic techniques of all, and the ability to project complex and profound feeling."
Tracklisting
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
Anouar Brahem; Anja Lechner; Django Bates; Dave Holland
Patrick Demenga; Latvian State Academic Choir; Youth Choir Kamer; Riga Cathedral Boys Choir; Andres
Nicolas Masson; Colin Vallon; Patrice Moret; Lionel Friedli
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett